Oh for God's sake. You're citing Philippe Rushton, a textbook definition of a racist, past president of the Pioneer Fund and frequent contributor to American Renaissance, both organizations classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups, and you want us to give equal weight to his arguments that blacks have smaller brains and unrestrained libido? He's been thoroughly debunked by many, but Joseph Grave's debunking of Rushton is one of the most thorough.
It's a sad day for slashdot when works by a noted racist thinker gets modded +5 and conspiracy theories on a presidential candidate's health make the front page.
If you can't actually fill them with a truly realistic substitute for unwanted infant fluids, they're worthless.
They're worse than worthless, they're giving a false idea that having a baby is easier than it seems.
By not fully simulating all the aspects of having a baby - from cleaning dirty diapers, to the financial aspects of dealing with the baby, to the changes in your social life - they're giving a false impression of what having a baby is really like. Instead, they made it seem like a game that only required them to press a button every few hours when the "baby" wails. They made having a baby similar to performing a series of in-game quests for the Pokemon generation, so it's no surprise those with the baby dolls had a much higher rate of pregnancy.
Well, it wasn't a robbery since nothing was taken...
In most cases that robberies go wrong and a shot is fired (typically because the victim resists) nothing is taken. This is because the sound of gunshot will attract attention very quickly. And for a robber, lingering around a homicide is far more dangerous than lingering around the scene of a robbery.
I would point out that the director of the FBI, James Comey, who recommended not pursuing charges, is a Republican who's donated to Republican candidates in the past, and who served under George W. Bush. And Lynch had already vowed to follow his recommendations. So while I see a lot of grumbling here about political bias in Hillary's favour, just as strong of a case could be made of a Republican bias against her in the investigation.
Most of the cost of paving a road is not the surface material, it's the labour and the equipment.
Agreed, which is why I think solar roadways are doomed to failure. Patching a crack in a traditional roadway involves throwing a patch of asphalt in the pothole by a couple of unskilled construction workers. Patching a damaged solar roadway would necessitate replacing an entire segment of roadway.
In engineering, when combining two functions in one item you're usually looking for complimentary requirements that can be used to provide synergy between the two. The requirements of roadways and solar panels are fundamentally different with little to no overlap. It would be far simpler to construct a roadway and solar panel network, with the solar panels installed in the median of the road, than trying to combine the two into a product that will likely be more expensive and more inefficient than building a separate road and solar panel network.
There are LEED rated buildings designed to maximize air circulation in a building and minimize the use of air conditioning, but still allowing for air conditioning when the need demands it. One can have a building with good air circulation and also have air conditioning - the two are not mutually exclusively. His point perhaps is that some of the buildings built around air conditioning can only exist with active cooling - many of the modern glass buildings constructed would become uninhabitable greenhouses without air conditioning.
This seems similar to the debate centering the role of artificial lighting in buildings. During the heyday of Brutalism in architecture in the 60s, many large public buildings were built without windows in the belief that windows were no longer needed when artificial lighting was ubiquitous. Fortunately architects now realize that maximizing natural light is more desirable, and having a building depend on artificial lighting makes for a poor building design.
Indeed. The reports from the attack are indicating that one of the attackers detonated a bomb in the car park outside the security perimeter, and the other two attackers entered through the arrival halls, where one of them shot his way through security zones. Increasing metal detectors and x-rays would have done nothing for the first bomber, and would have hardly have stopped the other two who shot their way past the x-ray detectors.
The 3.5mm is a miniaturized version of the 6.35mm audio jack which was originally introduced for telephone switchboards in 1878. It is the oldest existing electrical standard in use. Given its age and longevity, pretty much the entire audio industry has developed around this standard. Replacing it would require replacing every piece of electronic audio equipment produced over the last 140 years, from audio jacks in cars and airplanes to laptops,camcorders, as well as phones. It takes a lot of arrogance from Apple to think they can upend a widespread and ubiquitous standard that has withstood the test of time, and force every single audio equipment to use a connector to connect with an iphone.
What you're talking about is electoral fusion. It used to be widespread in the United States and minor third parties in the US such as the Populist Party used it successfully to gain influence as suggested. However, the major parties joined together to ban the practice and it is currently illegal in all but 8 states, making it a non-viable alternative.
Trump has said some stupid and insensitive shit, but can you point to something that was actually racist?
Trump said that a judge should be disqualified from a case solely based on his ethnicity. As Paul Ryan, GOP house leader, said on Trump's statements: "Saying that someone can't do their job because of their race is the textbook definition of racism."
This isn't Democrats and liberals calling him a racist - top Republican leaders are now saying so as well.
If no one gets 270, the election gets thrown to the Republican dominated congress, which would results in all likelihood in a Republican president.
I would say this would make a 3rd party Republican run viable, as a 3rd party Republican only needs to ensure that neither Trump or Hillary gets the 270 votes, as they can count on a friendly congress if the race gets decided there
They could always rally behind a 3rd party Republican candidate for president. A 3rd party Republican wouldn't have to do exceptionally well to win - they'd only need to do well enough to deny Hillary/Trump a majority in the Electoral College, thereby throwing the election to the Republican-dominated congress.
If those that dislike Hillary and Trump voted for a single 3rd party candidate, they'd probably win.
If a 3rd party candidate get enough electoral college votes to deny Hillary or Trump a majority, the election gets thrown to congress. Given that congress is Republican dominated that would mean a Republican victory,
A 3rd party Republican candidate could conceivably win by taking only a few key states, and I suspect the NeverTrump Republicans may be eyeing this alternative seriously. I'm surprised this scenario isn't being more widely discussed
For every honest businessman who wants to do good by their customers, there's a bunch of shady assholes looking to make a quick buck, and no amount of pretending the bad actors don't exist will actually make them disappear.
FTFA:
"On a recent Monday morning, about 40 miles south of San Francisco, Aubuchon carefully drove a Ford F-250 pickup truck with 324 gallons of gasoline into a hospital parking garage in Palo Alto, Calif."
It looks like the shady assholes are already here. Driving a pickup truck full of jerry cans of gasoline into a hospital is beyond irresponsible, and this type of business needs to be shut down immediately.
Kasich is more likely staying in the game for the same reason that Trump entered it - fame and recognition
Kasich is staying in the game because he sees a contested convention in July, and the more delegates he can get, the more influence he'll have in the convention.
What the article fails to consider is that most pollsters now see that if no further candidate drops out, a contested convention becomes increasingly likely, as not even Trump is likely to pick up a majority of the delegates. If I were to apply game theory to a contested convention scenario, I'd say that each candidates best strategy at this point is stay in the race as long as possible to amass as many delegates as they can. This is probably specially true for a Kasich, as a contested convention is probably his best strategy for securing the nomination at this point.
I get that Star Wars fans get upset over the multitude of changes of the movie since the original release, and the plethora of versions, but how is this different from every other movie released recently? Most movies have at least 5 different versions - US theatrical release, International theatrical release, TV Broadcast release, a director's cut version, and a DVD version. I have 3 different versions of the first Lord of the Rings movie at home, with the extended version adding 30 minutes of material. Blade Runner has both a director's cut version and a final cut version. And just about any blockbuster released more than 20 years ago has gone through a cycle of being remastered from VHS -> LaserDisc -> DVD -> BluRay , with requisite tweakings and touch-ups in sound and visual effects that each format demanded.
I'm not defending Lucas, but it seems like re-touching old movies seems on-par for the industry, including converting movies to 3D and colorizing old classics like Casablanca.
The real question i see nobody addressing is this. Why are all liberals so insistent on appointing a new justice before obama is gone?
Obama has almost a full year until the end of his term. If he were to agree to the argument in delaying his appointment, he'd be agreeing in deferring all major decisions until next year and would set himself up as an early "lame duck" president for a full year.
The argument might make sense if the vacancy had opened up after the election, but to agree to the Republican's demand now he'd be agreeing that he's lost the authority to make major presidential appointments and decisions for the whole year.
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Stop. Don't feel you have to find a tech connection to be able to discuss US political elections. No matter the outcome, the results will have an enormous impact on all those in the tech industry, so I don't see the harm in posting the occasional politics story for discussion on Slashdot once every few days.
I find it more annoying the need to find a tech angle, even if it's obscure or tangential sometimes, to be able to post political stories that people are clearly eager to discuss here.
From the article, they were planning on lighting up urban areas only. The mirrors wouldn't be large enough to light up more than a city, and the light would only have been the equivalent of a bright moonlight. And cities already have electric illumination at night. So this would only be substituting current electric night time lighting in city centers with the reflected light, which would have the advantage of cutting energy costs. The idea was being pitched as an energy saving measure for city centers. It's not so terrible if limited to urban centers.
Integration is not an experiment that succeeds or fails. It's life, and people and even entire populations change across as little as fifty years
It depends how you measure integration. You're looking at it in terms of language, which immigrants adapt to in the span of a couple of generations. However, for most immigrants the most important aspect of their culture is their religion. And even older immigrant populations in the United States have not easily changed their religious affiliation. Otherwise how would you explain Minneapolis' large Lutheran population (scandinavian migration) as opposed to the majority Catholic population in Boston (irish catholic immigration)?
They can also continue to offer iPhones as display models only. The only difference would be customers would be able to complete their purchases of iPads and Macs in-store, whereas for iPhones they'd be directed to the online site to order their phone, which would be shipped out-of-state.
Given that Apple stores operate mostly as showrooms, it will hardly make a difference in their business model.
While people are quick to pick on the ATF, and I don't defend them for installing surveillance cameras, if you read the article they were actually the only ones to explain what they were doing. However, they only seemed to be responsible for a handful of the cameras
The vast majority of the cameras belong to other agencies - FBI, local police departments - and neither they nor the local utility company on whose poles they are installed would offer any explanation, asides from providing a heavily redacted spreadsheet informing that the existence of other cameras are exempt from disclosure due to ongoing investigations. This, despite the cameras themselves being viewable from the street.
The problem these guys have is not gonna be that their plan is stupid, it's gonna be that getting a bunch of Libertarian internet activists to a) actually follow the fuck through and move to New Hampshire, b) show up to vote in boring off-years elections when nobody actually votes, and c) all vote the same fucking way even if both candidates disagree with them on some issue; is pretty much the definition of impossible. Especially c).
Which is why if they really wanted to make the most of their voting power they should be voting third-party Libertarian candidates into power instead. Given their numbers, and the fact that NH only has 3,300 voters per representative, it would be trivial for them to elect a couple of dozen third-party candidates in office. The problem with libertarian politics in the US is that they've made a devil's bargain with the Republican party. Social issues, foreign policy, immigration, privacy rights and internal security - on all these issues Libertarians fundamentally disagree with Republicans. It's about time Libertarians realize that their alliance with Republicans has only served to dilute their message to the broader public. Get a significant number into the state legislature, and they'll be a third party that will have to be taken seriously.
Yes, politics, corruption and violence would never allow any country in North Africa to develop a solar power plant...
Except it's already being done. Morocco is not only building a massive solar power facility
in the Sahara, with melted salt to store the energy, but is also developing power lines to export the electricity to Europe under the straight of Gibraltar.
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Oh for God's sake. You're citing Philippe Rushton, a textbook definition of a racist, past president of the Pioneer Fund and frequent contributor to American Renaissance, both organizations classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups, and you want us to give equal weight to his arguments that blacks have smaller brains and unrestrained libido? He's been thoroughly debunked by many, but Joseph Grave's debunking of Rushton is one of the most thorough.
It's a sad day for slashdot when works by a noted racist thinker gets modded +5 and conspiracy theories on a presidential candidate's health make the front page.
If you can't actually fill them with a truly realistic substitute for unwanted infant fluids, they're worthless.
They're worse than worthless, they're giving a false idea that having a baby is easier than it seems.
By not fully simulating all the aspects of having a baby - from cleaning dirty diapers, to the financial aspects of dealing with the baby, to the changes in your social life - they're giving a false impression of what having a baby is really like. Instead, they made it seem like a game that only required them to press a button every few hours when the "baby" wails. They made having a baby similar to performing a series of in-game quests for the Pokemon generation, so it's no surprise those with the baby dolls had a much higher rate of pregnancy.
Well, it wasn't a robbery since nothing was taken...
In most cases that robberies go wrong and a shot is fired (typically because the victim resists) nothing is taken. This is because the sound of gunshot will attract attention very quickly. And for a robber, lingering around a homicide is far more dangerous than lingering around the scene of a robbery.
Modern mirrors already require a factory replacement. Trying to replace a power-folding heated mirror is not a simple replacement.
I would point out that the director of the FBI, James Comey, who recommended not pursuing charges, is a Republican who's donated to Republican candidates in the past, and who served under George W. Bush. And Lynch had already vowed to follow his recommendations. So while I see a lot of grumbling here about political bias in Hillary's favour, just as strong of a case could be made of a Republican bias against her in the investigation.
Most of the cost of paving a road is not the surface material, it's the labour and the equipment.
Agreed, which is why I think solar roadways are doomed to failure. Patching a crack in a traditional roadway involves throwing a patch of asphalt in the pothole by a couple of unskilled construction workers. Patching a damaged solar roadway would necessitate replacing an entire segment of roadway.
In engineering, when combining two functions in one item you're usually looking for complimentary requirements that can be used to provide synergy between the two. The requirements of roadways and solar panels are fundamentally different with little to no overlap. It would be far simpler to construct a roadway and solar panel network, with the solar panels installed in the median of the road, than trying to combine the two into a product that will likely be more expensive and more inefficient than building a separate road and solar panel network.
There are LEED rated buildings designed to maximize air circulation in a building and minimize the use of air conditioning, but still allowing for air conditioning when the need demands it. One can have a building with good air circulation and also have air conditioning - the two are not mutually exclusively. His point perhaps is that some of the buildings built around air conditioning can only exist with active cooling - many of the modern glass buildings constructed would become uninhabitable greenhouses without air conditioning.
This seems similar to the debate centering the role of artificial lighting in buildings. During the heyday of Brutalism in architecture in the 60s, many large public buildings were built without windows in the belief that windows were no longer needed when artificial lighting was ubiquitous. Fortunately architects now realize that maximizing natural light is more desirable, and having a building depend on artificial lighting makes for a poor building design.
Indeed. The reports from the attack are indicating that one of the attackers detonated a bomb in the car park outside the security perimeter, and the other two attackers entered through the arrival halls, where one of them shot his way through security zones. Increasing metal detectors and x-rays would have done nothing for the first bomber, and would have hardly have stopped the other two who shot their way past the x-ray detectors.
The 3.5mm is a miniaturized version of the 6.35mm audio jack which was originally introduced for telephone switchboards in 1878. It is the oldest existing electrical standard in use. Given its age and longevity, pretty much the entire audio industry has developed around this standard. Replacing it would require replacing every piece of electronic audio equipment produced over the last 140 years, from audio jacks in cars and airplanes to laptops,camcorders, as well as phones. It takes a lot of arrogance from Apple to think they can upend a widespread and ubiquitous standard that has withstood the test of time, and force every single audio equipment to use a connector to connect with an iphone.
What you're talking about is electoral fusion. It used to be widespread in the United States and minor third parties in the US such as the Populist Party used it successfully to gain influence as suggested. However, the major parties joined together to ban the practice and it is currently illegal in all but 8 states, making it a non-viable alternative.
Way to prove the GP's point.
Trump has said some stupid and insensitive shit, but can you point to something that was actually racist?
Trump said that a judge should be disqualified from a case solely based on his ethnicity. As Paul Ryan, GOP house leader, said on Trump's statements: "Saying that someone can't do their job because of their race is the textbook definition of racism."
This isn't Democrats and liberals calling him a racist - top Republican leaders are now saying so as well.
If no one gets 270, the election gets thrown to the Republican dominated congress, which would results in all likelihood in a Republican president.
I would say this would make a 3rd party Republican run viable, as a 3rd party Republican only needs to ensure that neither Trump or Hillary gets the 270 votes, as they can count on a friendly congress if the race gets decided there
They could always rally behind a 3rd party Republican candidate for president. A 3rd party Republican wouldn't have to do exceptionally well to win - they'd only need to do well enough to deny Hillary/Trump a majority in the Electoral College, thereby throwing the election to the Republican-dominated congress.
If those that dislike Hillary and Trump voted for a single 3rd party candidate, they'd probably win.
If a 3rd party candidate get enough electoral college votes to deny Hillary or Trump a majority, the election gets thrown to congress. Given that congress is Republican dominated that would mean a Republican victory,
A 3rd party Republican candidate could conceivably win by taking only a few key states, and I suspect the NeverTrump Republicans may be eyeing this alternative seriously. I'm surprised this scenario isn't being more widely discussed
For every honest businessman who wants to do good by their customers, there's a bunch of shady assholes looking to make a quick buck, and no amount of pretending the bad actors don't exist will actually make them disappear.
FTFA:
"On a recent Monday morning, about 40 miles south of San Francisco, Aubuchon carefully drove a Ford F-250 pickup truck with 324 gallons of gasoline into a hospital parking garage in Palo Alto, Calif."
It looks like the shady assholes are already here. Driving a pickup truck full of jerry cans of gasoline into a hospital is beyond irresponsible, and this type of business needs to be shut down immediately.
Kasich is more likely staying in the game for the same reason that Trump entered it - fame and recognition
Kasich is staying in the game because he sees a contested convention in July, and the more delegates he can get, the more influence he'll have in the convention.
What the article fails to consider is that most pollsters now see that if no further candidate drops out, a contested convention becomes increasingly likely, as not even Trump is likely to pick up a majority of the delegates. If I were to apply game theory to a contested convention scenario, I'd say that each candidates best strategy at this point is stay in the race as long as possible to amass as many delegates as they can. This is probably specially true for a Kasich, as a contested convention is probably his best strategy for securing the nomination at this point.
I get that Star Wars fans get upset over the multitude of changes of the movie since the original release, and the plethora of versions, but how is this different from every other movie released recently? Most movies have at least 5 different versions - US theatrical release, International theatrical release, TV Broadcast release, a director's cut version, and a DVD version. I have 3 different versions of the first Lord of the Rings movie at home, with the extended version adding 30 minutes of material. Blade Runner has both a director's cut version and a final cut version. And just about any blockbuster released more than 20 years ago has gone through a cycle of being remastered from VHS -> LaserDisc -> DVD -> BluRay , with requisite tweakings and touch-ups in sound and visual effects that each format demanded.
I'm not defending Lucas, but it seems like re-touching old movies seems on-par for the industry, including converting movies to 3D and colorizing old classics like Casablanca.
The real question i see nobody addressing is this. Why are all liberals so insistent on appointing a new justice before obama is gone?
Obama has almost a full year until the end of his term. If he were to agree to the argument in delaying his appointment, he'd be agreeing in deferring all major decisions until next year and would set himself up as an early "lame duck" president for a full year.
The argument might make sense if the vacancy had opened up after the election, but to agree to the Republican's demand now he'd be agreeing that he's lost the authority to make major presidential appointments and decisions for the whole year.
I don't like stories that are not nerd oriented, but given Carly Fiorina's disastrous time as HP's CEO [...]
Stop. Don't feel you have to find a tech connection to be able to discuss US political elections. No matter the outcome, the results will have an enormous impact on all those in the tech industry, so I don't see the harm in posting the occasional politics story for discussion on Slashdot once every few days.
I find it more annoying the need to find a tech angle, even if it's obscure or tangential sometimes, to be able to post political stories that people are clearly eager to discuss here.
From the article, they were planning on lighting up urban areas only. The mirrors wouldn't be large enough to light up more than a city, and the light would only have been the equivalent of a bright moonlight. And cities already have electric illumination at night. So this would only be substituting current electric night time lighting in city centers with the reflected light, which would have the advantage of cutting energy costs. The idea was being pitched as an energy saving measure for city centers. It's not so terrible if limited to urban centers.
Integration is not an experiment that succeeds or fails. It's life, and people and even entire populations change across as little as fifty years
It depends how you measure integration. You're looking at it in terms of language, which immigrants adapt to in the span of a couple of generations. However, for most immigrants the most important aspect of their culture is their religion. And even older immigrant populations in the United States have not easily changed their religious affiliation. Otherwise how would you explain Minneapolis' large Lutheran population (scandinavian migration) as opposed to the majority Catholic population in Boston (irish catholic immigration)?
They can also continue to offer iPhones as display models only. The only difference would be customers would be able to complete their purchases of iPads and Macs in-store, whereas for iPhones they'd be directed to the online site to order their phone, which would be shipped out-of-state.
Given that Apple stores operate mostly as showrooms, it will hardly make a difference in their business model.
While people are quick to pick on the ATF, and I don't defend them for installing surveillance cameras, if you read the article they were actually the only ones to explain what they were doing. However, they only seemed to be responsible for a handful of the cameras
The vast majority of the cameras belong to other agencies - FBI, local police departments - and neither they nor the local utility company on whose poles they are installed would offer any explanation, asides from providing a heavily redacted spreadsheet informing that the existence of other cameras are exempt from disclosure due to ongoing investigations. This, despite the cameras themselves being viewable from the street.
The problem these guys have is not gonna be that their plan is stupid, it's gonna be that getting a bunch of Libertarian internet activists to a) actually follow the fuck through and move to New Hampshire, b) show up to vote in boring off-years elections when nobody actually votes, and c) all vote the same fucking way even if both candidates disagree with them on some issue; is pretty much the definition of impossible. Especially c).
Which is why if they really wanted to make the most of their voting power they should be voting third-party Libertarian candidates into power instead. Given their numbers, and the fact that NH only has 3,300 voters per representative, it would be trivial for them to elect a couple of dozen third-party candidates in office. The problem with libertarian politics in the US is that they've made a devil's bargain with the Republican party. Social issues, foreign policy, immigration, privacy rights and internal security - on all these issues Libertarians fundamentally disagree with Republicans. It's about time Libertarians realize that their alliance with Republicans has only served to dilute their message to the broader public. Get a significant number into the state legislature, and they'll be a third party that will have to be taken seriously.
Yes, politics, corruption and violence would never allow any country in North Africa to develop a solar power plant... Except it's already being done. Morocco is not only building a massive solar power facility in the Sahara, with melted salt to store the energy, but is also developing power lines to export the electricity to Europe under the straight of Gibraltar.